On variation of word frequencies in Russian literary texts

Vladislav Kargin ()

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, vol. 445, issue C, 328-334

Abstract: We study the variation of word frequencies in Russian literary texts. Our findings indicate that the standard deviation of a word’s frequency across texts depends on its average frequency according to a power law with exponent 12<α<1, which shows that the rarer words have a relatively larger degree of frequency volatility (that is, higher “burstiness”).

Keywords: Burstiness; Word frequency variation; Latent Dirichlet allocation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.11.014

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